About Shutta

Shutta Crum writes picture books for children, novels for teens and poetry for adults. She is also a storyteller, a public speaker and a librarian. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, and her articles about teaching and writing have appeared in many professional journals. In 2005, she was honored by being one of eight authors invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. In 2010 she was invited to tour American military base schools across Japan. Her latest book is MOUSELING'S WORDS(Clarion, 2017). It has garnered glowing reviews.

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My mother was busy with teaching, so my two grandmothers taught me all these skills.

As a young child I noticed how they each took their freshly baked cookies off cookie sheets. One very carefully lifted each cookie off and laid it gently down to cool. The other ,stood the whole metal tray up on end, and “SWOOSH”, all cookies came off in one strong swift swing of the spatula.

But, when it came to sewing, they stood as one in teaching their techniques.
I had to take out a velvet seam five (5) times, because the ‘darts’ didn’t match up!!!
Learned much from that.

These skills our younger generations will never know, as their believe their hands should now hold ipods and the like, yet I still hope to teach them how to tie a proper knot for times of emergencies.